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Explanation: It's a common historical counterfactual for amateur history enthusiasts to ask "What if Nazi Germany had [insert technology here]?" as a means of creating alternate timelines where Nazi Germany won the war.
In reality, considering that the US was deeply concerned that the Nazis may have been getting close to nuclear weapons themselves (they were actually far behind the US project), any serious reversal of Allied fortunes in Germany probably would've ended up with the nukes being used on the Nazis instead of Imperial Japan.
They were paying attention to the war. We dropped them in Japan because we saw that was going to be a prolonged blood bath while Germany front did not. If it had, I think America would have done absolutely everything to fast track many many bombs and not just the two.
The instrumental event was when a critical Nazi heavy water production plant was sabotaged by SAS commandos, which set them back several years of progress.
Virgin wehraboo’s alternate timeline: Nazis win(?)
Chad PugJesus alternate timeline: a world with no Godzilla and no Germany